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Originally Posted by xpl0sive
watched the "Doc Zone"... pretty predictable and almost one sided, but still some good points brought up... Also, found it funny that the Former Vancouver city planner is against the over development and over building of condos. I guess that's why he's the Former planner... They found someone else who would play ball and let the developers do what they want... it's clearly all about money and the short term future. no one cares about the long term.
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I feel that we're covering the same issues over and over again.
Municipal politicians are limited in terms of they can raise revenue, so they don't have much choice but to allow density because they need property tax revenue to continue providing existing services and not to alienate existing home owners. Condos are less than desirable and I wish that there were more forms of other housing, such as non-strata row-housing, but condos provide the most "bang for your buck" in terms of tax revenue. Now, you could always argue that the cities should get out of things like providing community centres, etc to keep taxes low, but those are difficult decisions to make.
Of course, if you want to be really cynical, then you could say that there are kickbacks and that the decision-makers are all corrupt.
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